Displaying MySQL data in a table - php

Question

I'm trying to neatly organize data from my MySQL database into tables. I'm almost there, but experiencing some troubles with my use of a while loop.
Posting my simple code:
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="style.css"/>
<?PHP
$connect = mysql_connect("localhost","root","");
mysql_select_db("users");
$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users");
WHILE($rows = mysql_fetch_array($query)):
$username = $rows['username'];
$password = $rows['password'];
$email = $rows['email'];
echo "
<table>
<thead>
<th>Username</th>
<th>Password</th>
<th>Email Adress</th>
</thead>
<tr>
<td>$username</td>
<td>$password</td>
<td>$email</td>
";
endwhile;
?>
This gives me an output of something like this:
Username Password Email Adress
test 123 test#test.no
Username Password Email Adress
testies 123 testies#test.no
Username Password Email Adress
tested 12345 tested#test.no
The obvious problem here is that my headers are printed inside the while loop, and thus I get new headers for every entry. This looks really stupid though, and I would prefer to have the headers only appear once. Any ideas on how to do this?
I have tried to start the table with headers before the while loop, but then the later <td>s wont correspond with the headers width, since the program doesn't recognize them as the same table, and thus not needing to match.

Answer 1

Use this
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="style.css"/>
<?PHP
$connect = mysql_connect("localhost","root","");
mysql_select_db("users"); ?>
<table>
<thead>
<th>Username</th>
<th>Password</th>
<th>Email Adress</th>
</thead><?php
$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users");
WHILE($rows = mysql_fetch_array($query)) { ?>
<tr>
<td><?php echo $rows['username']; ?></td>
<td><?php echo $rows['password']; ?></td>
<td><?php echo $rows['email']; ?></td>
</tr>
<?php } ?>
?>

Answer 2

change your code as follows.
<?PHP
$connect = mysql_connect("localhost","root","");
mysql_select_db("users");
$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users");
echo "
<table>
<thead>
<th>Username</th>
<th>Password</th>
<th>Email Adress</th>
</thead>";
WHILE($rows = mysql_fetch_array($query)):
$username = $rows['username'];
$password = $rows['password'];
$email = $rows['email'];
echo"<tr>
<td>$username</td>
<td>$password</td>
<td>$email</td>
";
endwhile;
?>

Answer 3

print the headers before the loop.
<table>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Username</th>
<th>Password</th>
<th>Email Adress</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<?php
$connect = mysql_connect("localhost","root","");
mysql_select_db("users");
$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users");
WHILE($rows = mysql_fetch_array($query)):
$username = $rows['username'];
$password = $rows['password'];
$email = $rows['email'];
echo "
<tr>
<td>$username</td>
<td>$password</td>
<td>$email</td>
</tr>
";
endwhile;
?>
</table>

Answer 4

Try this:
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="style.css"/>
<?php
$connect = mysql_connect("localhost","root","");
mysql_select_db("users");
$query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM users");
?>
<table>
<thead>
<th>Username</th>
<th>Password</th>
<th>Email Adress</th>
</thead>";
<?php
WHILE($rows = mysql_fetch_array($query)):
$username = $rows['username'];
$password = $rows['password'];
$email = $rows['email'];
echo "<tr>
<td>$username</td>
<td>$password</td>
<td>$email</td>
";
endwhile;
?>